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THE cry has gone up: save our red telephone boxes! BT submits regular requests to the Corporation of London to uproot phone boxes in the Square Mile, with an apparent bias against the historic red ones.

The company has just applied to remove another five, two of them red. The Corporation, which spends £1 million a year on keeping City streets smart, is very fond of the old boxes — there are 60 left, a number of them listed.

BT denies any bias. In the past the Corporation has bitterly opposed removals, but it is unable to do much in